Project overview:

Annual (bulk) issuance of bar-coded plastic cards was already handled by existing in-house systems. However, during the course of a year, there was a need to fulfil a steady demand for "one-off" cards.
With each plastic card being a low value item, it was important to ensure that the ad-hoc issuance of cards was handled as efficiently as possible, keeping costs down for the issuing authority and ensuring that
small volumes were not loss-making for the client. Enter "New Horizons".

After in-depth discussion with the client a project specification was mutually agreed for "New Horizons" – a software application that would enable card issuing authorities to
order plastic cards directly from their desktop PCs, and to issue temporary, printed barcodes on-the-spot.
Basic client management enables the card issuer to handle new / changed card holders, issue replacement cards and track card orders with ease.

At the PSC offices, an administration application allows card orders to be batched and fulfilled efficiently, saving a considerable amount of operator time. Users and authentication,
print templates, billing and several other facets of the system are all managed with ease through a custom-developed administration portal.